Yes, I have loaded the module snd-ctfxi many times,and unloaded snd-hda-intl.Also blacklisted snd-hda-intel, and put snd-ctxfi into modprobe.conf. I get more warnings on compiling the driver than you do - see below.(the messages below are from today not from Tuesday. The driver sourcewas downloaded this morning.) Fedora Core 8:[root@localhost alsa-driver-unstable]# uname -aLinux localhost.localdomain 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:18:33EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux(the messages below are from today not from Tuesday. The driver sourcewas downloaded this morning.) ---------------------------configure: creating ./config.statusconfig.status: creating versionconfig.status: creating Makefile.confA couple of days ago I got this:config.status: WARNING: 'Makefile.conf.in' seems to ignore the--datarootdir settingbut now this:$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: $ac_file_inputs seems to ignore the--datarootdir setting" >&2;} config.status: creating snddevices--------------------------------------------------------------------------These messages are from the "make": CC [M] /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/ctxfi/ctatc.o/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/ctxfi/ctatc.c: In function‘spdif_passthru_playback_prepare’:/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/ctxfi/ctatc.c:872: warning:‘err’ may be used uninitialized in this function CC [M] /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/ctxfi/ctvmem.o .......... CC [M] /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/hda/hda_eld.oIn file included from/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/hda/hda_eld.c:4:/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_eld.c:In function ‘hdmi_update_eld’:/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_eld.c:281:warning: passing argument 1 of ‘get_unaligned_le64’discards qualifiers from pointer target type/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_eld.c:284:warning: passing argument 1 of ‘get_unaligned_le16’discards qualifiers from pointer target type/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_eld.c:285:warning: passing argument 1 of ‘get_unaligned_le16’discards qualifiers from pointer target type CC [M] /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/hda/patch_nvhdmi.o ......... CC [M] /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/riptide/riptide.o/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/riptide/riptide.c: In function‘alsa_card_riptide_init’:/root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/riptide/riptide.c:2206: warning:ignoring return value of ‘pci_register_driver’, declaredwith attribute warn_unused_result LD [M] /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/pci/riptide/snd-riptide.o ...........No errors at end: LD [M] /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable/usb/usx2y/snd-usb-usx2y.komake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.23.1-42.fc8-x86_64'utils/link-modules /root/Desktop/alsa-driver-unstable ALSA modules were successfully compiled. [root@localhost alsa-driver-unstable]# _______________________________________________Alsa-devel mailing listAlsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel